BC Budget

• 552513 British Columbia Ltd.
• BC Transportation Financing Authority
• BCIF Management Ltd.
• BC PNP Fast Track Fund Ltd.
• British Columbia Enterprise Corporation
• British Columbia Public School Employers' Association
• British Columbia Railway Company
• Canadian Blood Services
• Community Social Services Employers' Association of British Columbia (CSSEA)
• Creston Valley Wildlife Management Authority
• Crown Corporations Employers Association
• Health Employers Association of British Columbia
• Leading Edge Endowment Fund
• Nechako-Kitamaat Development Fund Society
• Organized Crime Agency of British Columbia
• Post-Secondary Employers' Association
• Private Career Training Insitution Agency
• Provincial Rental Housing Corporation
• Rapid Transit Project 2000 Ltd

Statements of the Minister of Finance under section 24(3) of the
Budget Transparency and Accountability Act.

As required by section 24(3) of the Budget Transparency and Accountability Act (BTAA), this statement is to provide the reasons for the Minister of Finance recommending the following:

New Additions to the Definition of Education and Health Sector Organizations

A regulation has been enacted under which the BC Clinical and Support Services Society is being added to, and the SSO Administration Society and BC Academic Health Council removed from, the BTAA definition of education and health sector organizations.

The BC Clinical and Support Services Society is a new organization that was created to deliver shared laboratory and administrative services in the health care sector. It is a replacement organization for the SSO Administration Society. Government has determined that the BC Clinical and Support Services Society should be classified as an education and health sector organization, so that it shares the same accountability and reporting framework as the other health sector organizations overseen by the Ministry of Health.

The SSO Administration Society was created to facilitate shared services in the health care sector, and has been renamed and repurposed as the BC Clinical and Support Services Society, as noted above.

The BC Academic Health Council was wound up in the 2013/14 fiscal year, as its intellectual property and program administration were transferred to the Provincial Health Services Authority and its cash to the BC Institute of Technology.